| ukeatdabian said: “I could see Microsoft changing the Gold tier back to what it was (essentially online gaming and a few chat features), and charging more for a premium tier with the other features. My guess is that we’ll see Gold go to $60 per year, and the premium tier go to $100.” |
So, wait.... he expects the traditional "Gold" level to DROP all these extra features but INCREASE in price? And then he thinks that for those extra features we will cough up $100 a year?
The way I see it, they should do this:
Make basic online play, messaging, and 25 person friends list available to all Silver members for free.
Offer Gold which includes the bigger friends list, the things like netflix and last.fm and all that, and additional chat features like party chat for $40 (yes a $10 DROP).
And then for $60 or higher, offer Diamond. Basically Gold + incentives such as: a free arcade game each month, better beta opportunities, a couple free Zune rentals a month, and things like that. If Netflix can offer HD streaming for free with it's basic $9 package, MS should be able to afford to offer us some free Zune rentals from time to time.
